Posted by SuzieWong on June 11, 2004, at 15:54:15
I have been on a low dose of Prozac for about 7 weeks and am noticing alot of changes since I first started taking it.
I took it at first because I was getting horrendous rebound anxiety after withdrawing slowly from Celexa. Never have I experienced depression as such at least not the type I have experienced since starting on the Prozac. I gave it time and went through insomnia, agitation, weird perceptions, nightmares (when I did sleep) and obsessive thoughts.
I still suffer with insomnia, the depression is still underlying a little and I'm scared it will come back because it was the most awful hopeless, despairing, helpless kind. Also lots of stomach churning anxiety. What worries me the most is the obsessive thinking. I have gone through and come out the other side of thinking that I had every health ailment under the sun and that I was dying, to obsessing about my nightmare.
Now I seem to be obsessing about side effects, particularly sleep. I keep ringing the doctors and looking on here and I hear myself telling people and my poor husband who must be sick to death of it about how I'm feeling at any given moment. Its like I'm aware of every feeling in my body. I'm certainly hoping that will go away soon.
Funninly enough I used to worry all the time about having panic attacks and driving. These things don't seem to bother me at the moment. I just keep obsessing that I'm going mad.
Do you all think this is a bad reaction to the Prozac or is it a fairly normal stage to go through.
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